Share this:

Like this:

Ralph Maughan

Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is President of the Western Watersheds Project.

4 Responses to Nevada closes Jerritt Canyon Mine for mercury releases

Kudos to Idaho Conservation League for this action. They’ve really done good, hard-nosed, old-fashioned nuts-and-bolts activism to get this mine shut down. No collaboration, none of the “let’s all meet at the table” b.s. that’s so prevalent among conservation groups these days. They flat-out kicked some ass. Let’s hope we see more of this type of work from them.

JS please remember that gold ring your wife is wearing and the cell phone you use along with your big screen TV and many other items you have all contain gold that was mined so you can enjoy the finer things in life. Get a clue and take your environmental attitude somewhere else I hear Canada needs wackos like you.

It’s you that needs to get a clue. Gold can be refined without releasing toxic amounts of mercury. They released it over Idaho because that would increase their profits. In fact gave them an unfair advantage of mining companies that obeyed the law.

You tell JS to go to Canada because of his environmental attitude you don’t like. Unfortunately, you are an example of what has become too common. Telling people to leave the country if you disagree with them

Furthermore, the company that ran Jerritt was Canadian as are most of these gold mining companies.

Calendar

Quote

‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."